Platform Engineering: A Deep Dive Conversation • Russ Miles & Kevlin Henney

GOTO - The Brightest Minds in Tech

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2024.
https://gotocph.com

Russ Miles - Author, Engineering Manager & Chaos Engineering Practitioner
Kevlin Henney - Consultant, Programmer, Keynote Speaker, Technologist, Trainer & Writer
RESOURCES
Russ
https://bsky.app/profile/russmiles.bsky.social
https://github.com/russmiles
https://www.linkedin.com/in/russmiles

Kevlin
https://bsky.app/profile/kevlin.bsky.social
https://about.me/kevlin
https://twitter.com/KevlinHenney
https://linkedin.com/in/kevlin
https://instagram.com/kevlin.henney
https://kevlinhenney.medium.com

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Chapters

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Recap on Russ Miles' GOTOcph talk (00:01:08)

3. Platform engineering (00:05:40)

4. [Ad] Crossing Borders (00:10:46)

5. (Cont.) Platform engineering (00:11:24)

6. How to work around the product owner (00:16:17)

7. Wardley Maps (00:24:15)

8. Complexity theory (00:26:01)

9. Soft skills are hard (00:27:53)

10. Quantitative vs qualitative approaches (00:31:58)

11. Q&A (00:35:48)

12. What Russ Miles didn't know in 2014 (00:40:58)

13. Outro (00:44:16)